Usually, I do not read Mr. Philbrick's letters since he, like Donald Trump, inherited his business and his wealth. My experience is that people speaking from a position of privilege often speak from ignorance
Posts published in “Day: June 17, 2020”
Anyone visiting downtown Ukiah lately came away surprised. "What the heck is going on?" A major traffic disruption is going on, major traffic disruption that…
FORT… ??? America has once again discovered the "other" Fort Bragg — the one in California that was somehow named for a Confederate general before…
Hope. With recent events including strife and illness making the headlines in America, hope is something that has been scarce in my life recently, as…
I wonder how many isolated rural milltowns there were in California when the Wendling mill started production in 1907. I say dozens, perhaps hundreds along…
From early 1987 and for about the next 10 years I was employed at a small law office in downtown Oakland. The office consisted of…
The Lockdown has sparked a renaissance in correspondence. I’ve been exchanging postcards with my mother and letters with my youngest nephew. Emails have gotten longer,…
From the headlines: “Ailing Nations Push to Reopen, Accepting More Illness as the Price to Pay” “Despite Growth in Cases, Easily Distracted Washington Moves On”…
MOST OF TUESDAY’S BOARD of Supervisors meeting involved a lot of self-congratulation, some of it may even have been deserved. But if doing your well-paid…
(Before we get rolling here, I’m going to ask that you imagine, before reading the first line of this little time-waster, it coming from the…
In 1996, his first year in office, Terence Hallinan was the only district attorney in California to call for a "yes" vote on Proposition 215,…